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Day: April 22, 2018

This Is Why You Cross Your Legs
22Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

This Is Why You Cross Your Legs

    If you’re from a western culture, there’s a good chance that, upon sitting, you cross your legs in some way or another. Maybe you’re the type to instinctively overlap them at your feet. Or maybe you’re a diehard yogi, and regularly sit Sukhasana (colloquially, criss-cross applesauce). Or maybe you’re a devout figure-four (ankle rested on the opposite knee) or European-style (knee on top of and flush against the opposite knee) sitter the two most common postures. There’s also a good chance that you haven’t given a single thought as to why you sit the way you do. Your body is designed to move, says posture expert Dr. Steven Weiniger, author of Stand Taller Live Longer: An Anti-Aging Strategy. When you cross your legs, you’re trying to improve the mechanics of the lowe...
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Social media have to prove responsibilities otherwise could face new laws
22Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Social media have to prove responsibilities otherwise could face new laws

    The Health Secretary has accused social media networks of turning a blind eye to a generation of young people by failing to protect them when using their platforms online. Jeremy Hunt says he is disappointed by the lack of progress made in areas such as age verification, screen time limits and cyber bullying. He met with the bosses of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter in November, but in a strongly-worded letter he told the companies not enough progress has been made. I fear that you are collectively turning a blind eye to a whole generation of children being exposed to the harmful emotional side effects of social media prematurely, he said. This is both morally wrong and deeply unfair on parents, who are faced with the invidious choice of allowing chil...
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London Marathon 2018 on record: 40,000 runners face hottest through the capital
22Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

London Marathon 2018 on record: 40,000 runners face hottest through the capital

    London Marathon Runners have been warned about wearing fancy dress costumes with temperatures set to soar today. Races started from 8.55am. With the touch of a button the Queen will launch the London Marathon, sending a tide of more than 40,000 runners through the capital. The 38th edition of the world-famous race may well be the hottest on record, with sweltering highs of 23C possible throughout Sunday. Runners have been advised to drop their goal-times and organisers have added more ice, water and run-through shower stations along the 26.2-mile course. Among this year’s runners are firefighters who tackled the Grenfell Tower blaze, a police officer stabbed in the London Bridge terror attack and members of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Sunday marks 25 y...
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Tories plans force people to prove identities at polling stations in May local elections
22Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Tories plans force people to prove identities at polling stations in May local elections

    Government plans that will force people to prove their identities at polling stations in May’s local elections risk disenfranchising members of ethnic minority communities, according to a leaked letter to ministers from the equality and human rights watchdog. In a move that will fuel controversy over the treatment of migrants in the UK following the Windrush scandal, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has written to the Cabinet Office minister David Lidington, raising its serious concern that the checks will deter immigrants and others from participating in the democratic process. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the plan for compulsory checks was more evidence of the kind of hostile environment that Theresa May’s government wanted to create for peo...
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World’s oldest person dies in Japan at age of 117 years
22Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, Featured

World’s oldest person dies in Japan at age of 117 years

    Nabi Tajima, who held the title of world's oldest living person for seven months, died at the age of 117 in a hospital on Saturday evening in the town of Kikai in southern Japan A Japanese woman who held the title of world's oldest living person for seven months has died. Nabi Tajima died at the age of 117 in a hospital on Saturday evening in the town of Kikai in southern Japan, town official Susumu Yoshiyuki confirmed. She died of old age, after having been hospitalized since January, as the third oldest person ever to have lived, according to modern standards of evaluation. Tajima had seven sons and two daughters, who gave her more than 160 descendants. Tajima became the world's oldest living person in September, after the death of Jamaica's Violet Brown, who a...
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